Restoration

[Duffy]

Duffy slinked into Restoroth's Tinkers on 33rd Avenue off Bumble Lane and pulled back his hood to show his face and smile to the shopkeep. He had not been here in a while, many years in fact, and whilst he doubted he would be recognised he plied his charm just in case.

"Good afternoon sir!" He said brightly as he walked over to the oak counter and deposited a collection of items wrapped in a sheet of silk. They rattled and chimed unseen. "I was wondering if you still dead forge-work, and more importantly, if you could still enchant items of a peculiar nature or with peculiar effects?" He cocked his head to add inquisitive overtones to his question and unfolded the cloth.

Inside rested three daggers. Duffy sheathed the more ornate of the trio into his belt, it was Wainwright's Riposte and was far too powerful and precious to risk in the smelting and refining process. The other two were simple iron dagers, well used and battle-worn. "This 'ere is Tooth & Nail, as you can see, Tooth ain't got much bite n'more."

He picked up the broken hilt in one hand and the blade in the other. "I was wondering if you could fix this one, and bind them both in steel to strengthen them - not too bothered if they cut as strong, just s'long as they resist to parry." He clocked the shop keep to check he was still all ears then dropped the shards back onto the silk.

"And then of course I'd like ta enchant them, one to bite harder, and one to scratch deeper." He enjoyed the theatrics of naming his weapons a little too much. "What sort of protection enchantments can you ply and what sort of one shot pony tricks can you do?"

If he was going to restore them, to slay Lucian in the final moment with the very dagger that he had driven through Duffy's hand years earlier, it was going to need a little more than a new paint job.

[Taskmienster]

“In order to fix the dagger…” the shopkeeper looked at the poor weapon, shaking his head. “If you had steel on that little bugger to begin with it probably wouldn’t have broken so cleanly. I’d have to charge 45 gold to fix it back to normal and coat it, only ‘cause the coat would have to be put over the iron and go through the handle and then put the handle back on there like it was. The other, just for the steel addition, would be 30.”

The merchant returned the poke to see if his customer was still paying attention, just as he had been prodded. “As for the enchantments, they’d be minor at best. With steel, it’s a bit troublesome to really get something to stick sometimes. Biting and scratching a bit harder… I’d say I could get it done for you for a charge of 175 gold a piece. That would mean one would be a bit sharper and more useful for piercing, even to a degree not normal for steel. The other would be better at slashing and making gashes. Sound good?”

[Duffy]

Duffy smiled, he had already agreed on the price before the shop keeper made his offer. His determination to restore the blades to their original form and go beyond the confines of their forging was strong.

"Absolutely," he said enthusiastically. That would be a mere 420 gold to have done, leaving him a large coffer to acquire the other items he had to ready for his coming confrontation. There was much to discuss with the troupe regarding the matter, and plenty of things to 'tinker' with to improve.

"I don't suppose," he began to unwrap the Tinder Gear's wrist mounted units from his hands and plonked them on the counter, "that you know an engineer or perhaps a greek Fire specialist at all? I'd like to invest in a smaller, more compact design and perhaps one that is more efficient than this, but I've no expertise, time or patience to re-calibrate me own design."

It was worth a shot, and the sores and back ache he was getting from lugging all these weapons around was beginning to turn him into a hunchback.

[Taskmienster]

"I'm a tinkerer, not a dark elf. My knowledge of what to do with something like that goes about as far as I could throw a giant. That's not at all, if you had some illusions of me having Letho strength..." The shopkeep smirked. "I suppose if you had some sort of schematics already, and had a way of explaining all those little parts and what they did - while I was taking it apart - I'd be able to do just that... take it apart. As for putting it back together, your guess would be as good as mine. I heard that Alerar has the best people for engineering, and they'd be your best bet."

Yeah, I don't know how to price something like that... much less if that's a technology that the regular bazaar would possibly know about. If you want, I could work something out if you did an Alerar based quest or something about it. You do something like that, and link it to me, and we'll try and get something going. Either something about the schematics, it's use, maybe an origin, anything like that. Of course, since I assume that Duffy isn't of Alerar origin, I'd also have to assume that the equipment probably isn't. So, I'll change the deal since I'm thinking about it. A thread that scores over a 60 in Alerar gets you a discount for the change as well as the change itself. A thread that scores over a 60 wherever you decided it came from, be it Corone or SB or whatev, and I'll do the bazaar thread to make it how you requested.

[Duffy]

Duffy frowned, he supposed he was a little presumptuous in thinking he would get all the answers he needed in one tiny little island. He had built it himself based on designs found in the reaches of the Theatre in the Sky, he supposed to improve them, he would need to return there, by going Up The Mountain.

"Thank you all the same, then I guess it is just the daggers I shall require - mind, I'm sure you can convince me to add other things to them, you seem the persuasive sort," he winked, and fetched out the gold for the current price list and placed it on the counter.


Sounds good to me, I'll draft something up and deal with improving it in another thread as suggested. I'll take the dagger upgrades for now, then.

[Taskmienster]

Not being one for math, the merchant watched as the man placed the gold on the counter. He counted out 420 gold, but missed that his original calculations were for 425 gold. "I'll have them done in a jiffy."

Thread completed.

Duffy loses 420 gold and receives one fixed dagger with a coating of steel. Another dagger with a coating of steel. And finally, the enchantment for better piercing and slashing on Tooth and Nail respectively.

Gold removed.